Crowd separation or segregation is not a road the GAA feel the need to travel down now or any time in the future, Croke Park's head of games administration Fergal McGill confirmed yesterday.

The two clubs involved in last weekend's All-Ireland junior club semi-final have been asked to identify protagonists in the brawl that is being investigated by the Central Competitions Control Committee.

JIM McGuinness has threatened to pull his team out of the Dr McKenna Cup next year if their third-level college players are not available to them.

JOE CANNING and Galway kick off another season when they take on UCD in Belfield on Sunday and the Portumna man already has a goal for the year: to be still hurling with Galway in August.

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DUBLIN forward Diarmuid Connolly could yet pick up a costly early-season ban as the Leinster Council have sought the match video of last weekend's O'Byrne Cup semi-final, writes Cliona Foley.

Cavan GAA's management committee will discuss Seanie Johnston's transfer request to a Kildare club at their first meeting of the year on Monday night.

The Gaelic Players Association is still adamant that the vast majority of GAA players at inter-county level would not seek payment themselves if payments to managers were regularised.

THE cynics would say the fixtures machine was suspiciously kind to the league's marketing gurus.

THE Easter weekend scheduling of the Heineken Cup quarter-finals could cost the GAA a considerable amount of revenue from lost gate receipts as they clash with the final round of the Allianz Football League and the Division 1B hurling final.